Quick Question; Is Akwa Ibom state governor Godswill Akpabio filling all party positions with just his family members??

 Word on the street is that the Akwa Ibom state governor, Godswill Akpabio, is filling the party seats(PDP) with members of his family... How true is this???

Political elders within the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom has spoken against the state Governor, Godswill Akpabio, to further isolate the founding fathers from the party’s political base.

They accused the governor of trying to fob off the current Secretary to the State Government Mr. Udom Emmanuel, on the party as its governorship candidate in the 2015 general elections. They also stated that prominent party figures such as former Governor Obong Victor Attah, Otuekong Don Etiebet, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, among others, have been overlooked from making or taking decisions in the affairs of the party while elevating family

members and loyalists to the helm of the party.

Copies of the protest letter, signed by 60 prominent indigenes were sent to President Goodluck Jonathan, the Chief Tony Anenih-led Board of Trustees and the press.

Enclosed in the protest letter were the following:

* relocating the PDP secretariat from its149, Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo address, to the residence of his younger brother, one Ibanga Akpabio.

* withdrawing a certain Mr. Paul Ekpo, from his cabinet and making him the state party chairman. According to the petitioners, Ekpo is simply a mere figure head – the party being effectively run by the governor’s brothers, Emem and Ibanga Akpabio as well as Nsetip and Prince Akpabio.

* Akpabio appointing his younger brother, Ibanga, the party’s scribe while his Special Assistant on Youth Mobilisation, Mr. Emmanuel Ekpenyong, was made the state youth leader.

The petition signatories includes; 

*former Deputy Governor, Chris Ekpenyong, former state Justice commissioner, Ambassador Assam Assam (SAN), former Minister, Obong Rita Akpan; Senator Aloysius Etok; a party chieftain, Otuekong Sunny Jackson and two former Speakers of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Linus; and Chief Nelson Effiong.

Other signatories are some former members of the House of Representatives, Messrs. Bernard Udoh; Ekperikpe Ekpo; Tony Esu; Emmanuel Obot; Soni Udom; a former Deputy Speaker, Uwem Udoma; a former House Leader Uwem Ekanem and others.

In obvious reaction to this allegations, the state’s information commissioner, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, dismissed the petition as “an old one,” saying it was the product of “a desperate governorship aspirant.”